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The journey into the abyss of no return
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As I said, starts with a gentle breeze...
murphysranch
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Hubs is finally getting his hearing tested on Tuesday. Been a long time coming...
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Weldman
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I didn't ask for mine to be tested, it was I ticked my doctor off at the VA who kept having to play Pete/Repeat with the wife translating whatever they were saying which I have yet to figure out. I heard we are going to setup a hearing test sort of and that was that.
Sent me to get eye exam too, but I don't trust a civilian eye exam clinic where every worker wears glasses there and is only one in town.
SageHill
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Excellent. Once he gets them he will be amazed at what he has missed. Wind, rustling of leaves in the trees, birds. Catching speech isn't perfect with them, but certainly a lot better. A lot less trying to read lips, keying on other people's reactions, etc. Not hearing everything is very isolating. I've also heard /read that it can contribute to Alzheimers or similar.
Costco has them too. Get some that pair to his phone - maybe they all do that now.
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Weldman
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You have to wear them constantly to get the full effect of hearing aids, not one day here other day there or storing them in the medicine cabinet till as needed.
Your brain has to rewire itself to them too, took me about 3 months for my PTSD to calm down getting used to new noises. Still throws me off time to time, but it works. Getting them in one ear sucks, feel like a chicken trying to fly with one wing except you hear things with one ear and you think itās coming from one direction to only be the other. Lastly keep an eye out on the wax filters, I like to rub the mic on mine to test them for being clear, sounds like scratching a record. If itās close to that time of them month for the wife I donāt change my filters and turn them down, life is peaceful
Your brain has to rewire itself to them too, took me about 3 months for my PTSD to calm down getting used to new noises. Still throws me off time to time, but it works. Getting them in one ear sucks, feel like a chicken trying to fly with one wing except you hear things with one ear and you think itās coming from one direction to only be the other. Lastly keep an eye out on the wax filters, I like to rub the mic on mine to test them for being clear, sounds like scratching a record. If itās close to that time of them month for the wife I donāt change my filters and turn them down, life is peaceful
SageHill
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First I was going to thumbs up, but THEN you went all āpeacefulāYou have to wear them constantly to get the full effect of hearing aids, not one day here other day there or storing them in the medicine cabinet till as needed.
Your brain has to rewire itself to them too, took me about 3 months for my PTSD to calm down getting used to new noises. Still throws me off time to time, but it works. Getting them in one ear sucks, feel like a chicken trying to fly with one wing except you hear things with one ear and you think itās coming from one direction to only be the other. Lastly keep an eye out on the wax filters, I like to rub the mic on mine to test them for being clear, sounds like scratching a record. If itās close to that time of them month for the wife I donāt change my filters and turn them down, life is peaceful
Definitely wear them all the time - except not when sleeping. Make for a good snore filter w/o them
. Itāll for sure take time to get used to all the noises he has been missing - oh and shopping noises at Costco can be killer. But use them and get used to them is the mantra.
Baymule
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My big brother was a Viet Nam veteran and a Marine until the day he died. Men from the Marine Corp League even sat with him in the hospital where he lay dying and then put on the memorial service for him and told his wife all she had to do was show up. 4 years in the service, but a lifetime Marine.
He was practically deaf from all the gunfire. Hearing aids helped, but he still missed a lot. He died a slow terrible death. Was it from Agent Orange? The water at Camp LeJune? Some other nefarious experiment that our government kept a secret? It was a degenerate disease, never diagnosed by the VA until he was so bad off, one night the ambulance took him to the nearest hospital, a civilian hospital, where he was diagnosed with Shy-Dragens Disease. Life expectancy was 7 years and he was there. All muscular control left him until he could only wiggle an eyebrow in response.
Our veterans deserve much better than that.
He was practically deaf from all the gunfire. Hearing aids helped, but he still missed a lot. He died a slow terrible death. Was it from Agent Orange? The water at Camp LeJune? Some other nefarious experiment that our government kept a secret? It was a degenerate disease, never diagnosed by the VA until he was so bad off, one night the ambulance took him to the nearest hospital, a civilian hospital, where he was diagnosed with Shy-Dragens Disease. Life expectancy was 7 years and he was there. All muscular control left him until he could only wiggle an eyebrow in response.
Our veterans deserve much better than that.
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Weldman
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It is said that the chemicals in the brain change after extreme changes in life such as that one experiences in combat and it never leaves from there. Just as the poverty from the Great Depression never left our elders. Permanent mindset a certain way and it sticks for life.
On another note, went to check mail yesterday and where new property we are closing on pins are at was one of the trailer trash down below with his girlfriend had the car parked right on top of it and them sitting in the car. Very odd as I was driving back since I have no say so "yet" on kicking them off, they were recording me with her cellphone.
So today I get to drive back down there and see if they not only stole the T-post that was marking the pin, but the pin too. Want to see how odd this is, here is the satellite imagery of where they were parked with orange arrow point in the direction they were parked, the green dot is where the pin is at below the T post.
More fun
swear I'm not going to get peace out here.Mini Horses
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Why can't the crazy just stay on her own piece of "nowhere" land and live without the nonsense??? Does she think it's her private property as far as the eye can see? Ya know, I'm thinking " crazed mountain man" personality there...touched in the head. Shame you can't find a grizzly bear to hug on her.
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Weldman
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Actually this is another neighbor. The one from the orange arrow was there. The orange arrow visits the green arrow the green arrow visits the white arrow and the orange arrow, the white arrow visits the blue and green arrow and the blue arrow visits the orange arrow. Blue arrow was visiting the green arrow, but that changed when he borrowed the truck. All arrows convene on Tuesdays for the local food bank time to time. Green and orange arrow are the tree thieves and will be serving "No Trespassing" warnings to those July 1st.Why can't the crazy just stay on her own piece of "nowhere" land and live without the nonsense??? Does she think it's her private property as far as the eye can see? Ya know, I'm thinking " crazed mountain man" personality there...touched in the head. Shame you can't find a grizzly bear to hug on her.
All this happens at the bottom of the ridge, thankfully they live down there.
